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Fifty years after Marshall introduced his plan that would change the world, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright addressed the crowd of students and alumni gathered in the Tercentenary Theatre and introduced her vision for a post-Cold War global order open to all nations who accept democracy and free markets...
...wonder, then, that Arafat hit a wall at Camp David, when the Israelis put their final offer on the table and it fell well short of what Arafat - or any other Palestinian leader -would be able to accept and survive politically (or even physically). He'd been speaking out of two different sides of his mouth all along, but now the game was up. And that left him no room to maneuver, except stir up confrontation in the hope that it would force the Israelis and their American backers to offer him a better deal...
...Historically, Harvard student organizations had been slow to accept women as members. The Crimson accepted women editors in the 1940s. Women have served on the board of the Advocate since the late 1950s and WHRB allowed women to join in 1960. The Harvard University Band had its first female members in 1969. And it took even longer for women to rise in the ranks of these groups...
March 27, 1973: Marlon Brando refuses to accept an Oscar for best actor, citing the treatment of American Indians by the film industry...
March 21, 1974: Harvard’s Economics department refuses to accept a committee recommendation to require Marxian theory for graduate economic students...